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Yes, the articles ARE present in DB, but are no longer listed or displayed.
You can display them by adding the correct article number in the address bar. But they never re-appear as viewable in either admin menus or user side.
On the bright side, I forgot to mention I was finally able to delete existing categories.
That bug is gone.
I'll look into time zone settings. But I'm pretty sure that isn't the issue here.